Terrorism

When speaking about rights, don’t water down the principle.

On his recent visit to the Middle East, Vice President Cheney voiced the Bush administration’s belief that a Palestinian state is “long overdue” and vowed to help make that goal a reality. Many conservatives and liberals agree with the administration...

The good news out of Munich is that BMW has come up with something that could do a better job than the CIA in defunding al-Qaida. The BMW Hydrogen 7, available next year in a limited series of a few hundred cars in the United States and other countries, runs on either...

Here is how America could solve her terrorism problem in 5 easy steps: 1. Stop sacrificing American soldiers to bring “freedom” to savages in Iraq. Pull our soldiers out of that hell hole, and let the savages have their civil war. ( Iraq is not and never...

On June 2, 2006, seventeen Muslims, including five juveniles, were arrested in Canada for planning major terrorist attacks on Canadian soil against innocent people. Because these were “homegrown” Islamic terrorists, blame was rightly directed towards...

The killing by U.S. forces of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is a major turning point in the war on terrorism. The course of history is shaped by major events, and this is one of them. The elimination of one of the world’s most...

United Nation Reforms Worse Than Doing Nothing September 21, 2005 To the editor; Mr. Journo’s cogent article (The UN’s “Virtue” Is Its Vice) hit the nail right on the head: what is wrong with the UN is not economic corruption, improperly...

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, admitted that the problem of Iran’s growing nuclear weapons capability has to be “dealt with.” She didn’t say exactly how or when, but later on in the...

In light of the recent suicide bombings in London, and the general inability of the West to prevent terrorist attacks, there is much talk about fighting the “root cause” of terrorism. The most popular argument is that terrorism is caused by poverty. The...

From The Wall Street Journal: The Great Ground Zero Heist; Will the 9/11 “memorial” have more about Abu Ghraib than New York’s heroic firemen? by Debra Burlingame: The World Trade Center Memorial Cultural Complex will be an imposing edifice wedged in...

America’s war on terrorism is being undercut–by the administration’s efforts to inject religion into politics. Our enemy in that war is the ideology of Islamic totalitarianism–an ideology which holds that one’s life is to be lived...

“I can wage a better war on terror than George Bush has.” So speaks Senator Kerry in the U.S. presidential campaign’s final days, again reminding voters that the key issue in this race remains as it was a year earlier – deciding which candidate...

September 28, 2004 Why Australia is No Ally to Kerry Australia is a strong ally of the United States. We have a history of fighting alongside American troops in the wars of self interest over the past century (World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War I). We...

On September 11, 1814, Thomas MacDonough looked out across Lake Champlaign to see the fruits of his work over the summer. Upon the lake were near twenty ships, ranging in size from small gun boat, no more than a large row boat with a small cannon inside, to small...

He’s filled with “a sense of dread that we continue to live on borrowed time,” is “frustrated by the sense of denial that pervades so many corners of the federal government,” and sees “a dangerous proclivity among U.S. officials to...

Q: You say that if–when this country is attacked again–John Kerry would probably call the U.N. and “scream for help”. But Kerry told the people of the U.S. that if it was attacked again he would respond or react. So why do you say that he would...